Re: Excessive slowness for some users

I have not seen that on Mac Mojave. The only things that at times seem slow is saving after a lot of editing. Initial project is usually 2+ hours and the final project is an hour or 1:15 or so. Compressor is normally quick, but I’m using the old one and not the new one. Basic operations are all very normal speeds.

Cliff

> On May 13, 2021, at 13:51, Steve Fiddle <[email protected]> wrote:
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> We're getting a worrying number of reports of Audacity 3.x being excessively slow for some users. The common factor being that the projects are longer than about 30 minutes.
> 
> Most of the reports have been on Windows, but so are most of our users, so that may not be significant.
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> On Linux, when working with project of an hour or more I have also experienced some long waits, especially when closing the project (though  I rarely work on projects that are more than a few minutes long). 
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> A peculiarity is that the slowness may not appear immediately. It seems to happen after working on the project for a while, and may be related to using "Undo".
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> Below is the latest report that came in a few minutes ago.
> 
> Steve
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> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: [redacted]
> Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 at 19:26
> Subject: Audacity 3.02
> 
> 
> I appreciate the work you do and you making it available free to the user. It has helped me for years.
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> I do not want to complain but I am having some issues that I feel you should be made aware of.
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> I am using a Windows 10 Computer. All of my recordings are voice only and range from 30 to 60 minutes. Over the years I have made many recording using audacity. I average 2-3 recordings a week and have used audacity since one of your earliest versions.
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> A few weeks ago I upgraded to Audacity 3.0. With great expectation, I loaded it, expecting my “wait” time to be reduced. The reverse happened on nearly everything I do. It was so bad, I went back to my older version. Today, I saw 3.02 was out and downloaded it. I recorded a 48 minute audio without issue. However, When it came to editing, it was a different story. Below are a few of the “wait times” I experienced.
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> ·        Sound Finder took a long time but I did not time it.
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> ·        Label Audio Split took over 20 minutes
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> ·        Compressor took over 40 minutes.  
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> ·        Truncate Silence took a long time.
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> ·        Saving the file also took an extremely long time.
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> ·        Closing Audacity took over 21 minutes.
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> I hope this information helps resolve some issues. If I can be of help in evaluating, I would be happy to do so.
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> Sincerely,
> 
> [redacted]
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